Naomi Wallace, Marcus Rediker

Broschiertes Buch

The Return of Benjamin Lay

Beschreibung

In the silence of a Quaker meeting house, Benjamin Lay ¿-¿ shepherd, sailor, revolutionary, and the British Empire's first revolutionary abolitionist ¿-¿ returns from the grave almost 300 years after his death, as feisty and unpredictable as ever. The four-foot "David" confronts the "Goliath" of slavery as he demands once again to be readmitted into the Quaker community that disowned him for ideas considered dangerous and disruptive. How far will he go to share his prophetic vision knowing the cost of protest? Sweeping across the centuries and continents, THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY is a hallucinatory exploration of the life of a radical who became one of the earliest revolutionary abolitionists. "A potent piece of political theatre." ¿-¿Michael Billington "A complex and fascinating play." ¿-¿Broadway World "A remarkable piece of storytelling." ¿-¿Plays to See "At the end, on the night I went, the audience rocketed up in a standing O punctuated by shouts and woo-hoos. I left the theater feeling moved to be, if only in some small way, like Benjamin Lay." ¿-¿Entertainment Central Pittsburgh

Autor

Naomi Wallace's Finborough Theatre productions include And I And Silence, which subsequently transferred to Signature Theater, New York City. Theatre includes In the Heart of America (Bush Theatre), Slaughter City (Royal Shakespeare Company), One Flea Spare (Public Theater, New York City), The Trestle at Pope Lick Creekand Things of Dry Hours (New York Theatre Workshop), The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East(Public Theater, New York City), and Night is a Room (Signature Theater, New York City). Naomi has been awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize twice, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, the Obie Award and the Horton Foote Award. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts development grant. In 2013, Naomi received the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, and in 2015 an Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Her play One Flea Spare was recently incorporated into the permanent repertoire of the French National Theatre, La Comédie-Française. Only two American playwrights have been added to La Comédie's repertoire in two hundred years, the other being Tennessee Williams.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Broadway Play Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 36
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 60g
• ISBN-13: 9798888560488
• Artikelnr.: 75973486